Illinois Skills Match Offices
The Illinois Skills Match Offices offer a wide choice of employment and training options that will provide help to job seekers, who are hoping to find a new or better job.

You can use the Illinois Skills Match services to find local jobs in the Illinois workforce. Using a series of State development professionals who are from diverse partner agencies, they act together to provide some really great Job services. The Illinois Skills Match Offices also provide businesses with information on how to tap the wide variety of skilled people in Illinois looking for work.

In May, Illinois had an unemployment rate of 10.1%.  This is over half a percent higher than the national average.  This information is provided by the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program.  Data is based on areas with a population of at least 25,000.

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Illinois Skills Match provides you with the information you need to make the most of Illinois’ Official Job Search website.

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Illinois Unemployment Offices can help you. Find out how.

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Learn about Illinois Unemployment Web Site.

How to file your online claim for unemployment benefits.

How to certify your weekly benefits? Missing just one week could cancel your benefits.

In the first week that you are laid off work you should file for benefits. It is best to do it right away either online or at your local IDES center. The Illinois Department of Employment Security is geared to provide assistance when you are unemployed and you can clear up any doubts you may have about eligibility as quickly as possible. At the same time you can register for job placement right there at the IDES office or online at Illinois Skills Match. When you make your claim be ready to supply the information that they will need to process your claim.

If you are put off work for a week or longer you are eligible for unemployment insurance benefits and your employer will make sure that you receive information about the steps you will have to take to take advantage of the program. In Illinois the unemployment insurance is administered by IDES which is The Illinois Department of Employment Security. There are of course legal requirements to be met for you to receive benefits provided for by your employers who pay taxes on your behalf while you are working for them. These benefits are not financed by deductions from your earnings.

The Illinois Department of Employment Security, IDES, provides unemployed workers and young residents the opportunity of finding  a job through one of its employment programs. This article is the second article in a two-article series on the main employment programs available to Illinois unemployed workers. In the first article we discussed programs centered especially on young workers, such as the apprenticeship program and the Hire the Future program. We also discussed the opportunities available through Illinois’ Skills Match database and the IDES Job Fairs and Special Events and provided links and details on how to register for these valuable resources. In this article we will continue our review of Illinois’ employment programs and discuss the last five programs we set out to evaluate. These are the Re-Entry Employment Service the People with Disabilities program and the Veterans program.

Re-Entry Program

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